Strong's Hebrew · H8064

שָׁמַיִם

shâmayim · shaw-mah'-yim

air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).

Definition

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)

Derivation

dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

Appears 420 times in Scripture

Genesis 1:15

And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Genesis 1:8

God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Genesis 1:17

God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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